"If you had asked me moment, as a lawyer, I would have said I would rather have had a male Democrat on the court. Like most lawyers , I love to win. But I was glad to see O'Connor because she made me normal. Just the fact that she was there with a soprano voice and a ruffley collar made my physical presence less weird and less fraught."

-- Linda Hirshman

#Winning Quotes #Sopranos Quotes #Lawyer Quotes

“Feeling a little foolish over her confidences, Elizabeth glanced up at him with an embarrassed smile. â€œWhat is the most beautiful place youâ€™ve ever seen?â€ Dragging his gaze from the beauty of the gardens, Ian looked down at the beauty beside him. â€œAny place,â€ he said huskily, â€œwhere you are.”
“It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.”
“Kyoto was a flawed process. There isn't one industrialized country around the world that has ratified that treaty, and so that is a non-starter.”
“You get to a certain age, and you feel like you know who you are, and how you fit into the world, and how the world sort of perceives you. And you get pretty set in that. And then things can happen that can turn it upside.”

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“If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.3
“Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.”
“As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.”
“To think confidently, act confidently... Act the way you want to feel.”

Source : David J. Schwartz (2014). “The Magic of Thinking Big”, p.50, Penguin

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